"Wes Groleau" <groleau+news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:yz9rj.198$qw4.29@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Kerry Raymond wrote:
>> The problem is the little words ("and", "are", "at", "or", "on", "in",
>> "the", "they", "there", "their" etc). When we speak a sentence
normally,
>> we tend to say these little words quickly and often only make the vowel
>> sound ("ah", "eh", "oh" etc) which makes it very hard to recognise
>> exactly which
>
> I haven't noticed this problem in either ViaVoice or Dragon Naturally
> Speaking. Both do some sort of statistical analysis that uses nearby
> words to help decide.
Agreed. I also noticed a dramatic improvement when I upgraded to the
versions above 7. It still can't tell the difference between words the
same
(eg knight and night) but it would be unreasonable to expect it to do so.
Proof reading and some correction will always be needed, but I estimate
that
it's 95% accurate, or more. Since I'm from one of the generatins when they
thought that academically-inclined children didn't need to learn to type,
it's MUCH better than anything I can achieve.
>
> The problem I HAVE noticed is that I need to keep looking at the text
and
> avoid looking at the screen. Any time I pause, the program tries
> to transcribe every tiny little sound that happens as one of those
> "little words."
Yes. Since I bought a better microphone, I no longer have trouble with
background noise such as traffic or people walking past my office, but
it's
interesting what it can do with a sneeze or a sniff! It's also much less
useful if I have a cold, but that's reasonable since my voice changes -
I've
been tempted to set up a second voice file for when I've got a cold, but
fortunately I've not had one since I thought of doing it!
Nothing's perfect, but some things can be improvements. I'm a lousy,
4-fingered typist. Dragon's quicker and more accurate, so I can accept the
imperfections.
Lesley Robertson
|
